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SCMP Reporter

Suspected Hong Kong drug lord Lawrence Wang has flouted a court order by slipping out of the Philippines.

  Police sources in Hong Kong confirmed they were on the lookout for Wang, re-arrested in Manila after being acquitted of possessing 36 kilograms of the drug 'ice'.



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